Cup and saucer
Yusupoff Factory
1826 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The portrait is of Czar Nicholas I (1796–1855). The inscription indicates that the cup and saucer were presented to the French ambassador to Saint Petersburg, Auguste-Frédéric Viess de Marmont, duc de Raguse, on the occasion of the czar's coronation.
- Artist
- Yusupoff Factory
- Date
- 1826
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain
- Culture
- Russian, Arkhangelskoye
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
